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Sick of staying home? Sunshine, fresh air and a country escape
are the best medicine

The call of the countryside has never sweet-talked us quite so
much as in the last three months. As the grass begins to flourish
on the greener side of lockdown, the prospect of staycations
filled with woodland walks, wild swims and rosy-cheeked bicycle
rides fringed by cow parsley are brightening our horizon.

Yet if you thought you had to be a country bumpkin – all oil
jackets, horsey whiffs and frumpy farmhouses – to enjoy the sticks,
Dormy House will prove you wrong. On the doorstep of Broadway, a
quintessentially honey-hued Cotswolds
village, this 17th-century pile has been sympathetically revamped
with the kind of retro-chic, Scandi suave and high-end
wholesomeness that makes it an ideal retreat for cooped up,
city-weary folk.

That’s why, when the hotel flings open its doors for summer,
it’s inviting you and a friend to enjoy a two-night stay, and a few
extra treats to boot.

The Dormy
House team has been busy during lockdown, polishing its Edison
bulbs, setting log fires and brushing jewel-toned velvets to make
this place more inviting than ever. Such country-chic suave would
be painfully cool if it weren’t for the state-of-the-art House Spa,
on hand to soothe any aches. Sweat, steam, soak, repeat in its
juniper-scented Finnish sauna, salt-infusion therapy room and
outdoor hot tub before checking in for a truffle-infused
facial.

The surrounding Farncombe Estate is prime territory for making
the most of summer. Ask reception for a key to the secret Japanese
garden or order a picnic hamper and head off into the grounds. A
dip in Dormy House’s infinity pool is our preferred way to cool
off.

We realise all this relaxation is hard work, so we’re lavishing
winners with daily breakfasts – eggs benny with smoked salmon,
please – as well as a dinner for two in the Back Garden restaurant
where slow-grown, locally foraged produce is the order of the day.
Just make sure to snag a window seat; a plum soufflé is best
enjoyed with views across the estate.

Sated, pitch up in The Potting Shed, a revamped British boozer
that doubles up as the hotel watering hole. Order a nightcap before
retiring to one of Dormy
House‘s 38 individually designed suites to sink into a
king-sized bed. Good life? This is the Great Life.

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